To The Trades Council

Adolph B. Covert Esq.- Bear,Sir: -Tour committee submits the following: "In the event of your election to congress will you consent to introduce or support a bilí prohibiting the importation of foreign tauí-bk lauor either under contract or otnerwise." rermit me to say that to every reader of the Press that I have ediced íor some years, this question wou Id be unuecessary. I am unqualifld)y opposed to the "importation" of foreign labor, pauper or otherwise. Uut paupers should be excluded the same as crimináis or dangerous characters should be kept out. I vvould go f urther, I would "protect American labor." I would make it icnpossible for any Corporation or firm to import foreign labor to supply the place of strikers, uutil the sourts had arbitruted the justice of the strike. I should favor the policy of prohibiting the employmeat by government, state or municipal authorities, mines or faetones any personnot admitted to full citizenship. I should not wish to restrict emigration so as to prevent honest, worthy men from seeking a home here, providing they carne not to be a burden but with means to care for themselves. Not opposiug honest emigratiou but strangling the practice of importing cheap labor to compete with honest workmen wheueyer they stretch forth their hands for living day's wages. My motto is "a hundred cents on the dollar for workmmi,and pay regolarly." Very Respectfuüv.